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The Senate will defer consideration of the GOP healthcare plan that would partially repeal and replace Obamacare until Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., returns to work following a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement late Saturday. After ...

WASHINGTON — A bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act that narrowly passed the House this month would increase the projected number of people without health insurance by 14 million next year and by 23 million in 2026, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. That 10-year figure is slightly less ...

WASHINGTON – Top Drug Enforcement Administration officials consistently provided inaccurate information to the Justice Department and Congress about three deadly shootings during 2012 anti-drug operations in Honduras, including one incident that left four civilians dead, according to a new internal government inquiry. The scathing review from the Justice Department’s inspector general, ...

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Sunday firmly defended health care legislation passed in the House this week against charges that people who have pre-existing conditions could see their insurance premiums rise under some circumstances. Asked about the numerous health groups and organizations opposed to the ...

Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador was soundly booed and criticized for saying “nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare” at a town hall Friday. A video posted from the event shows Labrador, who voted in favor of the House GOP healthcare bill on Thursday, standing on stage and ...

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz apologized Tuesday on Capitol Hill for an incident in which a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight and vowed to do better as he and other airline executives faced tough questions from lawmakers. Munoz told a congressional hearing that passenger David Dao was treated ...

The first Latina elected to Congress, Republican Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has announced that she will be retiring after more than three decades in elected office — potentially paving the way for Democrats to take her congressional seat in 2018. “It’s been such a delight and a high honor to ...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ruled that it will take over the opposition-led Congress’ legislative powers, in a move condemned by opposition parties as an attempt to install a dictatorship. The court, which has consistently sided with President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, said late on Wednesday that as long as the Congress ...

Lawyers said that Melissa Gilbert hadn’t “adequately proved that she would be physically unfit to serve in Congress,” in a letter to the state’s election director Friday. Gilbert recently had surgery. The state Republican Party is challenging a decision by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office to let “Little House ...